Breaux Vineyards — Attraction in Lovettsville

My husband and I had a most disturbing experience on the grounds of Breaux Vineyard on Sunday, May 20th. As he and I traveled down the road on which the vineyard is located, we noticed a sign announcing a Cajun Festival to take place on June 9th. This peeked our curiosity, so we decided to pull over to check their website for more details and confer with our social calendar.

Shortly after exiting our vehicle, as we were taking in the breathtaking scenery, a vehicle approached us from what we assumed was the main property. It contained an African American woman and a white male. The vehicle stopped perpendicular to ours, and the woman, in a most pleasant and kind voice, asked if we were ok. When I told her we had just pulled off the road for a moment, she said they were just checking to see if we were in need of any assistance. We also asked if there was a restaurant on the property. She said there was, but that it was closed at this time. I thanked her for the information and expressed my appreciation for her offer to assist. They then pulled away, and on to the main road. My husband and I commented to each other about how that encounter reaffirmed our faith in our fellow man's sense of concern and willingness to offer assistance to strangers.

Those blissful sentiments were quickly shattered when the next two vehicles shortly arrived. We heard a horn blow and saw a dark colored SUV pull a few yards from our vehicle, shortly followed by a white woman driving a small black vehicle pulling up and stopping behind our vehicle. In a stern, irate voice she exclaimed, "What are you doing here?! This is private property! I will get fired if I left you on the property! I tried to explain to her why we were there. She ignored my words, and instead responded, "I am going to back up my vehicle and you are going to get in your car and leave the property right now"! My husband and I returned to our vehicle and quickly exited on to the main road.

As we traveled down the road away from the property, we noticed the woman in the black SUV was in front our vehicle and the woman in the small black car behind us. The woman behind us began to follow us at unusually close distance. We noticed that she was now on her telephone. With the number of incidents involving the overreaction of white people encountering African Americans and viewing us as threats, my husband decided to increase his speed slightly to place some distance between our vehicles. We became even more alarmed when the vehicle behind us increased her speed which placed her within a few feet of ours.

What made the situation even more harrowing was when we decided to pull off the road to allow her vehicle to pass, she stopped her vehicle on the side of the road. We also noticed the dark SUV had pulled over as well. Shortly after, we reentered the road, the vehicles continued to closely tail us.

We debated about whether to telephone the authorities, but quickly dismissed the thought out of concern for our own safety given the current climate.

This was a very unfortunate and horrifying experience for us. My husband and I are profoundly saddened by how such a beautiful day could have ended with our being pursued as though we were hardened criminals. It was a terrifying ordeal. It seems that there are still those in our society who are ignorant, and bigoted.

In the end, we emerged shaken, but still optimistic that things will improve, and we will one day live in a society where people are not judge by the color of their skin.

We hope that someone at Breaux Vineyards will read this post and have a conversation with the two women who pursued us like we were fugitives. We also implore others to hold them and everyone else they encounter who chooses to engage in such divisive, reprehensible behavior, accountable by shining the light on them so powerful, they are forced out of the shadows. This is the dirty, ugly side of humankind and it needs to end before we destroy all the good...

Never, ever again. I have gone to Breaux many times. There is a dingbat there lately, and no other word for her. Seems to wear a beanie on her fake blonde hair and is clearly somehow related to the owners of Breaux. This dingbat, if I owned Breaux would be band from the place. you can tell she has never worked to earn anything in her life and feels as though she owns the place. She is a dingbat. She reserves six tables for her motley crue. so while people are trying to find a place to sit there are none because dingbat and her motley crue are taking up a couch, 3 chairs, and and another table table somewhere else until they decide it is time for motley crue to go to their reserved tables. I am sitting there at a table minding my own business by myself enjoying wine, listening to music and watching a basketball game on my tiny phone screen. Not bothering anyone. I was watching this game for almost 2 hours. No one at the motley crue table knew or cared. Out of no where blonde dingbat with the beanie on her head who thinks she owns the place and has never earned a dollar in her life comes over to me and tells me to turn down the volume on my phone where I am watching the game. Now the only reason dingbat knew I was watching the game was because she was sitting at the end of her motley crue table behind me and could see the basketball game. 8 or 10 of her motley crue friends sat closer to me than she did. Not one of them was disturbed by me watching a basketball game on my phone. In fact, most didn't even know. They couldn't hear the volume because I couldn't hear the volume, because there was live music playing. Nothing and no one were bothering anything. This fake blonde dingbat with the beanie on her head proceeds to tell me that everyone at her motley crue table was saying something to her about where the noise from the game was coming from. I sat right next to every one of these motley crue people. Closer to them than she did. Not one of them paid any attention to me or even knew or heard that I was watching a basketball game on my TV. This dingbat feels so privileged, so entitled, at this winery it is disgusting. And this dingbat clearly has no clue what customer service is or who paying customers are. This fake blonde, beanie wearing, dingbat had nothing better to do than to tell me to turn down my volume on my little phone that absolutely no one could hear simply because she has been led to believe somehow or someway she matters. It was disgusting. What was mot disgusting about it was my little phone that, God strike me dead, no one heard was a problem. Yet this fake blonde beanie wearing dingbat reserved like 6 tables, 12 chairs, but then proceeded to have her motley crue gather at a completely different location, taking up an entire coach, 2 chairs, and two other tables. People, paying customers, could not find a place to sit because of this dingbat. Yet there sat 6 tables, 12 chairs empty with reserved signs. It is disgusting that the owners let this fake blonde, beanie wearing dingbat show up every 4th Friday and act as she does. It is crystal clear the owners have no appreciation for customer service and paying customers. First and foremost priority is fake blonde, beanie wearing, rude, dingbat, drinking for free, is enjoying herself. There are many wineries in the area. Wineries that have some clue how to treat paying customers. I would encourage everyone to avoid Breaux Winery until someone bans know nothing, do nothing, fake blonde, beanie wearing dingbat from the winery. Been a lot of places in a lot of cities, states, countries. If I owned Breaux, fake blonde, beanie wearing, rude, clueless, dingbat would never be allowed on the property again. What an...

My husband and I have been Club members at Breaux for many years and we love the beautiful winery venue area especially the exclusive Club Member room and outdoor patio seating area. We are members at 4 other VA wineries that are a shorter drive for us to get to but we make the 1 1/2 hour drive to come to Breaux because we always get exceptional service and we love all of their wines. We had bought tickets to their Nebbiolo Vertical Flight and it was suppose to be a tasting paired with food but due to COVID-19 restrictions they could not find a caterer who could provide this service. They quickly reached out to ticket holders and offered a full refund or a partial refund if you wanted to just do the wine tasting. We chose to do the wine tasting because their Nebbiolo wine is one of our favorites. We got to try six years of their Nebbiolo wine, their 2000, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012 and 2015. We truly enjoyed learning about all the vintages and getting to taste the differences in each year. We really liked the 2000, the 2010 and 2012 and were able to buy 2 bottles of each to add to our growing wine collection. After the tasting we headed to the Club Room where we had reserved a table outside on the Club patio. It was extremely windy and cold outside and they were super accommodating and let us sit inside the Club Room so we would be more comfortable. We ordered a bottle of their 2019 Voignier, a cheese/meat platter and a panini to share and enjoyed ourselves for a few hours. I have to add that we feel very comfortable coming to Breaux because of the sanitizing practices and protocols they are doing to keep the guests safe. We highly recommend this winery and we will continue to...